Editing Kabal of the Lords of the Iron Thorn

{{Infobox Drukhari Kabal
|Name = Kabal of the Lords of the Iron Thorn
|Heraldry = [[Image:LordsOfTheIronThrone.png|200px]]
|Lead Archon = Khadys Abrahak
|Kabal Specialties = Gravship manufacturing, Overwhelming firepower
|Colours = Black, Iron Grey, Red Highlights
}}

The unwieldily named Kabal of the Lord of the Iron Thorn are a major [[Dark Eldar]] [[Kabal]] in the city of [[Commorragh]]. The best way to look at them is that if the [[Kabal of the Obsidian Rose| Obsidian Rose]] is the pointed teeth of the Drukhari war machine, the Lords of the Iron Throne are the legs that get them there, basically being the luxury carmakers of the entire race.

== Origins and Organization ==
The Lords of the Iron Thorn are Commorragh's greatest comeback story. In that they were ''allowed'' to have a comeback story. Truly one of the very oldest, and possibly ''the'' oldest Kabal in the entire society, as they can trace their roots back to when Commorragh was merely an especially rowdy port city in the [[Webway]]. This has made them arrogant even by the standards of the Dark Eldar, which means these fuckers must just be the worst person you know times cloned a million times. Combine that with ambition that is nearly limitless, and they are a Kabal that has carved a pretty respectable niche for themselves, but it's that same level of total ambition and complete arrogance that got the Lords of the Iron Thorn almost completely erased from the face of the Webway.

See, the Lords of the Iron Thorn's enormous Biker-Bar-Gravship-Factory is called '''Pandaimon''', and it is a transdimensional satellite realm to Commorragh. While it's been very close for eons, it's never exactly been ''directly'' in Commorragh's backyard. And it is that unusual combo of technicality on a dimensional level and Kabal-wide arrogance that caused one very, impressively, holy-shit-are-you-this-dense arrogant Archon named '''Draylin Qu''' to decide to secede from the city in M38. Now, there were three theories as to why this had ended up happening: The first was simple, idiotic greed that had gotten Qu so hopped up he was willing to throw down with ''Asdrubael fucking Vect'' of all people. The second was that he was trying to galaxy brain up a civil war so that he could sell Raiders to whichever side, and end up richer than all of them. But the opinion who mattered was that of Vect himself, who saw this upstart little shitbird as a personal affront to everything he'd built, and decided that it was time to remind him who his betters were, and showed up in Pandaimon ready to level it back down to the foundations. Qu on the other hand had planned for this, and had outfitted his Kabal with the best attack craft and guns he could get his hands on, and quickly stalled out the fighting into a bitter stalemate: the Iron Thorn countered Vect's much larger force by simply pounding it with firepower too powerful, too fast and too numerous to break, but were also too pinned down on one location to start gaining any ground. But like any good evil mastermind, Vect had an ace up his sleeve; Qu's own daughter.

Veryna Qu had become one of Vect's consorts, and in a grand betrayal the likes of which has only ever been matched by other Archon, killed her own fucking father with a poisoned kiss causing him to die in utter agony. With him gone, Vect picked up Qu's daughter, and rode his overwhelming forces right up into Pandaimon, where after they surrendered, a culling was done that was so brutal that even thinking about it still gives other Kabalites shivers. Think about just how bad that has to be for [[PROMOTIONS| OTHER DARK ELDAR]] to get a little green around the gills thinking about it. But, in the rarest act of his entire life, Vect left survivors. Finally free of his annoyance, he admitted he was impressed by their spirit, and thought that their skill could come in handy someday, and so he withdrew his forces, and encouraged them all to rebuild, just to see what would happen...but not before tacking up Draylin Qu's face up on a wall somewhere to remind them just what they should ''avoid'' doing in the future.

While the Kabal was probably down to about less than a few thousand very beat-up survivors, the reality is that their sheer capital and resources, combined with their unique location and relentless personal philosophy, meant that it was relatively easy for them to rebuild around the thing that had made them so hard to fight in the first place: attack craft. Their entire Kabal is now dedicated to the creation of attack craft, and their marque is a sign of quality: They put out the very best [[Raider]]s, the fastest [[Venom]]s, and the shootiest [[Ravager]]s. If you're a Dark Eldar, chances are you're salivating at the idea of going into battle on the backs of one of the Iron Thorn's machines, and fantasize about being the one behind the wheel. That level of brand recognition and trust has single-handedly gotten them back at the table in Commorragh, being able to intimidate, bribe, or scheme their way back into the politics of the Dark City simply by throwing these things around as gifts, and while they've never shaken their arrogance, the current Archon and a Trueborn survivor of the Pandaimon war, '''Khadys Abrahak''', knows all too well the dangers of getting in Vect's sights. At least, directly, anyway, and so they work night and day to undermine him however they can.

Of course, their need to put out more and more grav-ships means that the Lords of the Iron Thorn are pretty regular raiders of realspace, grabbing captives who can work the forges and hammer the signature marques into shape by the millions, all so that they can have their machines out and in the lots of Commorragh. Like his predecessor, Abrahak has a talent for combat involving gunning things down through sheer volume, and often loves joining raids personally just to prove that his weapons are far superior to that of the inferior races' air and skimmer-craft. Unlike his predecessor, Abrahak is far more cautious, planning his raids to the letter, and won't commit forces unless he's sure he can get an edge on the hapless bastards he's about to put on his manufacturing line, and would rather have every last [[Kabalite Trueborn|Trueborn]] he has die horribly rather than let even one of his Skimmers go.

Also in the time of the 41st Millennium, Vect "manipulated" them into going out and smashing a rival Kabal into dust for daring to convert Dark Eldar into [[Ynnari]].
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